misery
mis|ery /m'ɪzəri/ (miseries)
1 [N-VAR]
Misery is great unhappiness.
All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.
...the miseries of his youth.
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
Misery is the way of life and unpleasant living conditions of people who are very poor.
A tiny, educated elite profited from the misery of their two million fellow countrymen.
3 [PHRASE] V and life inflect
If someone makes your life a misery, they behave in an unpleasant way towards you over a period of time and make you very unhappy.
...the gangs of kids who make our lives a misery.
4 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you put someone out of their misery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know. (INFORMAL)
Please put me out of my misery. How do you do it?
5 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you put an animal out of its misery, you kill it because it is sick or injured and cannot be cured or healed.
= put down
1 [N-VAR]
Misery is great unhappiness.
All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.
...the miseries of his youth.
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
Misery is the way of life and unpleasant living conditions of people who are very poor.
A tiny, educated elite profited from the misery of their two million fellow countrymen.
3 [PHRASE] V and life inflect
If someone makes your life a misery, they behave in an unpleasant way towards you over a period of time and make you very unhappy.
...the gangs of kids who make our lives a misery.
4 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you put someone out of their misery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know. (INFORMAL)
Please put me out of my misery. How do you do it?
5 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you put an animal out of its misery, you kill it because it is sick or injured and cannot be cured or healed.
= put down